{"id":600,"date":"2007-07-07T07:07:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T07:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=600"},"modified":"2007-07-07T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T07:20:07","slug":"jsa-black-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/07\/jsa-black-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"JSA: Black Reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jsablack.jpg\" alt=\"JSA: Black Reign\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geoff Johns<\/strong>, <strong>Rags Morales<\/strong>, <strong>Don Kramer<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Bair<\/strong>, <strong>Keith Champagne<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-984-0<\/p>\n<p>Super-heroes get all geo-political in this latest compilation of the Justice Society (<strong>JSA<\/strong> #56-58 and <strong>Hawkman<\/strong> #23-25) as a breakaway branch of members and ex-members invade a Middle-Eastern country to depose a monstrous and tyrannical dictator and liberate his oppressed subjects. This naturally leads to the right-thinking team-mates having to go in and stop them. It is a long cherished tenet of super-hero ideology that the good guys don&#8217;t mess with political injustice and make no lasting changes.<\/p>\n<p>The result is the usual punch-up and soul-searching all around, culminating in a portentously inconclusive stalemate while every troubled, heroic stalwart reconsiders his\/her\/its position. In keeping with the new spirit of realism, there are even some casualties, but they&#8217;re only among the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153misguided\u00e2\u20ac\u009d heroes and probably only to facilitate the freeing up of the brand name for the next round of re-treads\/relaunches.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also impossible to escape the rather heavy-handed political allusions to America&#8217;s dubious foreign policy adventures, but by fictionalizing such commentary surely the risk exists that one also trivializes it? As ill-informed as many Americans seem, is a comic-book really the best place to air such views? Especially if you can&#8217;t even name the countries you&#8217;re &#8216;discussing&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Glossy, pretty, fatuous and ultimately, rather vacuous.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2003, 2004 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Geoff Johns, Rags Morales, Don Kramer, Michael Bair, Keith Champagne (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84023-984-0 Super-heroes get all geo-political in this latest compilation of the Justice Society (JSA #56-58 and Hawkman #23-25) as a breakaway branch of members and ex-members invade a Middle-Eastern country to depose a monstrous and tyrannical dictator and liberate his oppressed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/07\/jsa-black-reign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JSA: Black Reign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-jsa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-9G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}